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Krimson
Developer CryingPsycho
Krimson is a challenging gritty rhythm platformer featuring heavy electronic metal music. You're an unknown spawn going through a hellish world as it moves rhythmically to the music. One wrong move means death but the checkpoints are often and death is very short. From the Steam store page
93 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Aug 24, 2026 · last updated Oct 9, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
99
LovedLoved
82 positive · 1 negative
95% range 93–100%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 82 | 1 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Mastodon * | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 1 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
83 of 84 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
99% recommend · 82 yes, 1 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 83 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (130 of 132 positive).
Players praise Krimson's intense audiovisual style and rhythmic platforming. [1][2][3] Some find the game frustrating due to confusing visuals and difficulty. [4] Many reviewers highlight the game's creative level design and metal soundtrack. [5][6][7]
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Representative posts
- [1]
The Precision Platformer to End All Precision Platformers To be completely honest, I already knew I was going to at least like Krimson—the Next Fest demo back in June last year was like a jolt of electricity cutting through my post-Celeste blues going on some three and a half years at that point—but what I didn't know was how utterly infatuated I would become with literally every facet of its design: how impressed …
- [2]
Rhythmic Hellfire: Krimson Delivers a Metal-Infused Platformer Experience Krimson is a pulse-pounding journey through a world drenched in darkness and driven by rhythm. From the moment you dive into its abyss, you're thrust into a relentless cascade of electrifying beats and unforgiving challenges. The marriage of heavy electronic metal music with the platformer genre is a stroke of genius. As an unknown spawn …
- [3]
Krimson not only does it give a fun challenging platforming experience, but also makes you experience platforming with the rhythm of the music while it also throws a lot of cool lighting at your screen, this game has a great OST with over 30+ unique songs and over 30+ unique levels, the boss fights are also very fun and challenging. I would definitely recommend this game if you like your screen feeling like an LSD …
- [7]
Great OST Great level design Great gameplay Great visuals Great game
- [5]
I love it, I love it, I love it, I love it!!! Stunning trippy visual so creative with banger metal soundtrack. Who thought of this game? Give that guy a cookie!
Summarised from 34 of the 96 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 13, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
Krimson sits at 99% positive across 83 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Reactions
60 of 93 · most liked firstThe Precision Platformer to End All Precision Platformers To be completely honest, I already knew I was going to at least like Krimson—the Next Fest demo back in June last year was like a jolt of electricity cutting through my post-Celeste blues going on some three and a half years at that point—but what I didn't know was how utterly infatuated I would become with literally every facet of its design: how impressed and engaged I would be by its meticulous level layouts, how captivated and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Super meat boy had a crazy nightmare after tripping on acid. This was that nightmare.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hoihoihoi I’m Krimson and smut is my game ! Have some animation !
neutral · AI labelView post →I love it, I love it, I love it, I love it!!! Stunning trippy visual so creative with banger metal soundtrack. Who thought of this game? Give that guy a cookie!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Can you smell the leaves changing colors? We can smell the sales we've got during the Steam Autumn Sale🍂: 🦗Cricket: Jae's Really Peculiar Game - 50% 🐲Dragon is Dead - 20% 🌍Hoa - 50% 👻Ikai - 50% 🔥Krimson - 50% 👽Exophobia - 40% 🍃Extremely Powerful Capybaras - 30% 🪼Squish - 75% ⚽️Guts and Goals -75%
neutral · AI labelView post →celeste for bisexuals
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →RAD GAME. Precision platformer that's not completely unforgiving with good controls to pilot your... ball, stages made of skulls and other low-res (PSXish) demonic imagery, stages that pulse and change with the music, and music that really makes me ♥♥♥♥ myself. Got enough edge that it goes past being cringe and pleasantly loops back to being as cool as I found Shadow the Hedgehog when I was 13 (which was very). Good stuff.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Store page already sells most of the game. My contribution and opinion on the game: this is basically 140 except it's 4.7571428571428... times as awesome (yes, precisely that much). The soundtrack, the exploration of different environments and styles of heavy metal, and just simple good-feeling gameplay. Not much that goes wrong with this, just be wary of the visuals: it can get a bit flashy sometimes.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Rhythmic Hellfire: Krimson Delivers a Metal-Infused Platformer Experience Krimson is a pulse-pounding journey through a world drenched in darkness and driven by rhythm. From the moment you dive into its abyss, you're thrust into a relentless cascade of electrifying beats and unforgiving challenges. The marriage of heavy electronic metal music with the platformer genre is a stroke of genius. As an unknown spawn navigating a hellish landscape, every step you take must align with the beat, or…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Yooo! I am Krimson KB, and I love to stream FFXIV, Lethal Company, Retro Games, and Reaction content! Hope you have a Schwey Day! 🤘🔥 Twitch: twitch.tv/krimsonkb Youtube: www.youtube.com/@KrimsonKB?s... Tiktok: www.tiktok.com/@krimsonkb
neutral · AI labelView post →Eng: This game is criminally underrated. It`s not as hard as Celeste or SMB, but takes some skill. And i also can see it in one of my favourites. Music is awesome, bosses are hard, visuals are amasing. Personal ranking 8/10 Ru: Игра шикарная и очень недооценена. Она не такая сложная как Celeste или SMB, но требует определенного умения платформить. Музыка агонь, Боссы сложные, Визуал отличный. Ставлю 8/10 P.S: beat the game, gonna rank everything now. Levels 7/10. Great, but sometimes boring.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Music is so good that I edge everytime I die, Don't have alot of time on the game yet but from just the start I edged so hard that I know am gonna play this more
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Super Meat Boy's worst acid trip
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Amazing aesthetics and music!!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Had a great time with this. My only complaint is that it's sometimes hard to see your exact position so the precise platforming can be awkward.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →fleshball jump. fleshball die. music hard. good game
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In the last four days since the game's release, literally 100% of players have beaten the first major boss fight which is just shy of an hour into the game, which is something I don't think I've ever seen on Steam, ever. Huge testament to the fun feeling of playing (and even failing) in this game. Incredible design. Fantastic. People who give it a try simply find it irresistible and they have to keep going. Can't wait to see this grow.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this is so opium playboi carti wlr king vamp narcissist ken carson a great chaos succubus teen x destroy lonely if looks could kill archive rager wake up f1lthy freestyle type beat osamason flex musix nettspend we not like u ian lazer dim 700 trapsooldwheniplaymysonggottarunoutthehousehopetheroofdontfallonme type beat
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not extremely long, but really well executed. Intense visual style with an intense soundtrack, and constantly feeding you new gimmicks to play with. The game isn't terribly long (finished at review time) but it'll take you a while if you want to get levels deathless cause it's far from easy (though also not terribly difficult, just has a lot of tight moments) I think it would be nice to have more circles where we maybe see some interactions between features from circles 2-4, though I can…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Play Krimson or go to hell!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One must imagine the Meatball happy.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Krimson not only does it give a fun challenging platforming experience, but also makes you experience platforming with the rhythm of the music while it also throws a lot of cool lighting at your screen, this game has a great OST with over 30+ unique songs and over 30+ unique levels, the boss fights are also very fun and challenging. I would definitely recommend this game if you like your screen feeling like an LSD trip combined with Salvia and your ear's bleeding with goated music at the same…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →And finally, we have @pmstudiosusa.bsky.social giving away copies of Dragon is Dead & Krimson, @powerwashsim.bsky.social giving away 5 copies of their game & @superspin.digital giving away 10 copies of their game! Both PowerWash Simulator & Spin Rhythm XD will have dedicated gameplay in the stream!
neutral · AI labelView post →Blood flowed down my ears Blood flowed down my eyes and it flowed agonizingly A metal heads dream come true in one game with a killer ost
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →very goofy visuals, ton of variety in the platforming with a completely new and creative mechanic every x levels. took me 7.2 hours to get through the entire thing. it's not hard enough to where you get stuck on a level for an hour or more, but i definitely died a couple hundred times if not more. very fun to play with an 8bitdo controller which made my hands tingle after a while due to all the vibrations, but i suppose it suits the vibes :)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is great! How the music is engraved in the gameplay is fantastic. Great ost. Very well thought out level design. Diffucult, but forgiving, especially on the hitboxes. Unlike Celeste, where the difficulty is mainly mechanical (performing tricks, like wavedashing), here it's (mainly) just you, your jump, your walljump and gravity. Now, all that's left for you is to >>SELF DESTRUCT<<!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I bought this game intending on playing for 20 minutes and roasting it with my friends. 4 hours later and I beat it. It’s a genuinely really good game if you can handle the visuals
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great sound design Great earrape No wonderflower
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great OST Great level design Great gameplay Great visuals Great game
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A gloriously grimy audio/visual feast that will melt your eyes and ears in the most wonderful way.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Imagine if Super Meat Boy were designed by a version of Terry Cavanagh that was somehow freebasing off a drip feed of death metal directly to the cerebellum. What I find most interesting about this rhythmic platforming TRIP (in every sense of the word) through the circles of hell is that although there are your familiar fleshy, steel, and molten takes on the underworld here, there's also a psychedelic rainbow zone that is effortlessly creepier than all the others, and I am *here* for it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The best way I can describe this game is "an experience". It will occasionally be frustrating, player-hostile, and tedious. But when everything comes together, it is very fun. It is essentially a platformer where the level elements react to the song's rhythm. The music, the graphics, and the level design all combine to create a really artistic and fun game experience. I picked this up in 2024 and didn't get around to finishing it til now. I do wish it was a little bit longer, it's only about 2…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →very fun little platformer, absolutely in love with the visuals, which somehow are readable despite all the flashing (I'm serious the flashing is CRAZY, do not play if you're at all prone to epilepsy or even just dislike flashy visual, this is a rough sell unless you're already drawn to the aesthetic) Even if you do not give the game a shot, please please please P L E A S E look up the soundtrack for this game on bandcamp by CryingPsycho, the soundtrack is soooooo good and unique, very gritty…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Wow, what an amazing hidden gem! At first glance, some things will be obvious to you - either you like this "argent metal destructive" vibe, or not. If you do. Do be aware that they're not kidding - this is a precision platformer at heart, and it is quite challenging. Though, for Krimson specifically, I prefer to call this genre of games an "assault on the senses" type genre. As you may see from the store page, this game is super audiovisual heavy, and for that I'm happy that it doesn't…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I LOVE IT This game is great for beginners in platform games (like me), it's not too easy and not too hard (because of checkpoints). The visuals are beautifully done and the soundtrack is the best part of the game. I keep returning to it after a year of completing it and I listen to ost at my free time.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Krimson ended up being a pretty great hidden gem that caught me off guard with how unique it felt. This is technically a precision platformer but the real appeal here is all about the presentation, you get this evil heavy metal aesthetic with a killer rock soundtrack that really drives the whole experience. The game consistently looks and sounds cool throughout, with some genuinely fun visual ideas that really shine during the boss encounters. The platforming itself plays well and stays…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →At the time of writing this review, I still have not finished playing the game. But I will give an honest and positive review. This is my first precision platformer I have ever played and it's quite difficult. But I absolutely love the challenge it gives! Sure it seems that at some points I can't see where the little meatball is, but the aesthetics given are phenomenal! Circle 3 is definitely the trippiest of the circles with it feeling like acid and/or magic mushrooms on steroids. While…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Score: 7/10 Art: The visuals fit the tone of the game well, though they lack variety. The choice to include a rainbow-colored stage is certainly interesting, but it comes across as odd and somewhat out of place compared to the rest of the design. Music: Excellent across the board. The industrial metal soundtrack is energetic and perfectly suited to the gameplay. While most tracks are instrumental, the few vocal tracks stand out as highlights. Story: There’s no real narrative to follow.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great soundtrack, tight gameplay, some of the best controller vibration integration I've felt in a long time. Highly recommend if you're into precision platform, will continue to return for a long time to come
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →KRIMSON KB REACTS: Onimusha: Way of the Sword Trailer - Summer Game Fest 2025 CLICK TO WATCH! - youtu.be/NRI4vMBCevM?...
neutral · AI labelView post →Master Chief Certified Banger
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The only thing wrong with this game is I don't know where to get the soundtrack. Edit: I lied its on bandcamp, nothing is wrong with this game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →GOTY 2024 My only complaint is that it's too short
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this game tickles me just so
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →incredible music, incredible visuals, all around one of the coolest rhythm games i've played
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Peak visual style and music Good gameplay ~3 hours to complete
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I think most creators deserve support but I respect people like Markiplier and Jacksepticeye and Krimson KB because they interact with and actually care about people. Too many think content creation is a numbers game
neutral · AI labelView post →A really great platformer, great music and concept. Would 100% recommend!!!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →insanely good game
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Looks like hell, indeed
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Krimson is the ultimate hardcore rhythm platformer. Despite still being a precision platformer, controls are smooth, forgiving and easy to master, so once you get in the zone and follow the rhythm given by the amazing soundtrack everything just flows and is one of the best feelings of that style I had with a 2D platformer. It is also very generous with checkpoints, so there is very few repetition. To add to that, every chapter introduces new mechanics, so you'll constantly have to rewire your…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I got a taste for this game when it was not fully released yet and got to see how the whole music-vibe system worked, the game is pretty fun and it gives you a mixed feeling of rage quitting but also wanting to play so you can see how each level changes, it is a good mixture of getting angry and joy after you pass each level. needless to say that is has many challenges and if you enjoy being in hell as a ball of bloody fluff, this game can give your challenge needing feeling, a good thumbs up.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Genuine fun platformer that takes place in hell! Music is nice too! I recommend
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →very fun and awesome music.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Overall Krimson is a very good game. Nearly everything is perfect with this game besides the huge difficulty spike at the end of the 3rd act, and going into the 4th act, as well as some hitbox issues I have noticed every so often. 8/10. Not much else to say honestly.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →New game: Krimson. This platformer changes based on the rhythm of the music, in a very similar way to Just Shapes and Beats, but with a heavy metal look. It's on [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/2107520/Krimson/) for quite the cheap price, and there's a demo. Also, I want to highlight [this review](https://steamcommunity.com/id/heathhh/recommended/2107520/), it really shows everything about the feel of the game.
neutral · AI labelView post →This game is crazy, I loved the aesthetic and the music so much, what a good combination... It pumps you up into finishing the levels fast, and the difficulty is HARD but FAIR. Good to play alone or with a few friends passing the controller after each death. Recommended to play with headphones or with a good sound system (this would be sick with a good subwoofer) If you're into Metal and Dark Electronic Music definitely try this out. This game haves a lot of potential for speedrunners,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is so hard because the ost is so good
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very good game and the music alone is enough to make you buy it
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not finished with the full game yet but the Next Fest demo was legitimately one of the best recent experiences with gaming I've had and the game is just that but more. Will update with a proper review probably once I finish this game eventually, but the demo alone warrants the full game getting a positive rating and hopefully further its push to new people. If you love games like Celeste and can handle rhythm games or especially if you like rhythm games, get this game. NOW.
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